I just read this, PM (I haven't been around much for a while) and I'm once again awed at the beautiful spirit I always see shining through your words. As always, your words--or in this case, choice of another's words--ring so true, and bring tears to my eyes. You are an incredibly wise and caring woman, and I'm proud and honored that we call each other "friend."

i have that on my ipod and was listening to it while i read it isn't that funny? lol. don't laugh at me sung by mark wills, i don't know if he wrote it. that was me in school, kids are brutal in elementary and middle school, and then there's high school. i always wanted to disapear from the earth and die when i was young starting at age 6 or so. so i really understand the song for the most part. i could not imagin losing a child though.

False Pride... people put others down to feel better about themselves. It;s a real shame. <br /><br />The sad fact is that children do what we do, not what we say. They learn the behavior at home. <br /><br />I know the feeling, I was the brunt of many laughs when I was younger, lucky for me I found "my solution and escape" to all my problems when I was 8. And miraculously, I was freely given "the solution" when I was 39. <br />Bullying still breaks my heart today. Thanks for sharing this...hugs

If we could learn to look at another with our heart insread of our eye's. I wonder what life would be like if God had placed a safety check within each of us. One that each time you hurt another you yourself felt the same pain that you caused.

really wonderful post..thanks for sharing! i think we should all keep a copy of this handy and read it from time to time, just to remind ourselves that we all come from the same place, and it only takes one misfortune to land in the narrator's place.

Wow .. thanks for posting this! My 11 yo daughter has Aspergers and since Kindegarten has been picked on, rejected and bullied at school. I use to have this poem (or song) taped to a binder that I hold all her special education papers in. Somehow I lost it. Glad to have found it again. <br /><br />I was shy and often picked on in school. But it is nothing compared to what she goes through. I think I suffer more than she does. Kids really suck sometimes.

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